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rholder/guava-retrying

This is a small extension to Google's Guava library to allow for the creation of configurable retrying strategies for an arbitrary function call, such as something that talks to a remote service with flaky uptime. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/rholder/guava-retrying · Java · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 5120
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1254
  • n_releases_24m: 0

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Adoption not part of the score

1463 stars · 271 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small Java library extending Google Guava that provides configurable retrying strategies for arbitrary function calls via a RetryerBuilder DSL. It supports retry conditions based on results or exceptions, stop strategies, and exponential or Fibonacci backoff wait strategies.

Use cases

  • retry flaky remote service calls in Java
  • add exponential backoff to API requests
  • retry a callable until it succeeds or attempts run out
  • retry only on specific exception types
  • implement well-behaved service polling with backoff
  • wrap unreliable network operations with configurable retries

When to choose

  • you're on the JVM and already use Guava
  • you need fine-grained control over retry conditions, stop rules, and wait strategies
  • you want a lightweight, focused retry library without pulling in a full resilience framework

When to avoid

  • you need circuit breaking, rate limiting, or bulkheading alongside retries (consider Resilience4j)
  • you're not using Java/JVM languages
  • you need a library under active development with frequent updates

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

error-handling concurrency developer-tools developer-tools backend microservices jvm retry retryer guava backoff resilience java-library

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